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zerobit · #1 03-Nov-2009, 16:05

Hi,

Could somebody please help me with this cloze test, I think it has some errors.
I filled in the ones I was sure about and just left the ones I thought had errors.

At noon, just as I was leaving my friend's office, it suddenly came to my mind that I had no idea where I had parked my car. I could __1__ go up to a policeman and tell him that I had lost a small green car somewhere! I would simply have to look for it myself. I walked down street after street. I examined each car closely and was very much __2__ to see a small green car just behind an old car. But how __3__ I was to discover that though the car was exactly like my own, it belonged to someone else.

1- 1) hardly 2) kindly 3) merely 4) truly
2- 1) available 2) comfortable 3) miserable 4) responsible
3- 1) emotional 2) experienced 3) conscious 4) terrible

Thanks in advance.

bhaisahab · #2 03-Nov-2009, 16:08

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Originally Posted by zerobit

Hi,

Could somebody please help me with this cloze test, I think it has some errors.
I filled in the ones I was sure about and just left the ones I thought had errors.

At noon, just as I was leaving my friend's office, it suddenly came to my mind that I had no idea where I had parked my car. I could __1__ go up to a policeman and tell him that I had lost a small green car somewhere! I would simply have to look for it myself. I walked down street after street. I examined each car closely and was very much __2__ to see a small green car just behind an old car. But how __3__ I was to discover that though the car was exactly like my own, it belonged to someone else.

1- 1) hardly 2) kindly 3) merely 4) truly
2- 1) available 2) comfortable 3) miserable 4) responsible
3- 1) emotional 2) experienced 3) conscious 4) terrible

Thanks in advance.

None of the options for 2 are correct.

zerobit · #3 03-Nov-2009, 17:29

The answer given for 2 is "comfortable". It doesn't fit in at all, does it?

How about 3? The answer given for that is "terrible". What do you think about that?

bhaisahab · #4 03-Nov-2009, 18:58

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Originally Posted by zerobit

The answer given for 2 is "comfortable". It doesn't fit in at all, does it?

How about 3? The answer given for that is "terrible". What do you think about that?

That's not good either.

konungursvia · #5 03-Nov-2009, 19:10

Perhaps the person who wrote the erroneous test was thinking of the word "comforted." It's not a great fit, but it works. The third should be "disappointed."